A Design Perspective on the WordPress REST API

A presentation at A Day of REST in March 2017 in Boston, MA, USA by Mel Choyce

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Title Slide: A Design Perspective on the REST API

Mel Choyce

@melchoyce / melchoyce.design / mel.blog

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Who’s in the room?

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Designers are excited about the REST API

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A gif of Michelle Tanner from Family Matters dancing

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Whole new ballgame

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More control over the back-end or the front-end

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Progress, not stagnation

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“Blog” no more

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Great custom client sites

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Better product design with WordPress

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API opens new avenues of work

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Mobile Design

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Not experts… yet

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Interaction Design (IxD)

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https://dribbble.com/shots/3344228-Moving-task-flow- interactions

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Not a lot of interaction in the current WordPress admin

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Design is important to showing state changes

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Learn the basics now

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We’ll need help with the technical bits

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How developers can help

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Talk to designers early

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What’s changed?

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We might need help

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Walk us through things

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We might be worried

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Be patient

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Can your team cover front-end, too?

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Some designers will happily adapt

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Collaborate with designers to make cool new things

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When WordPress does well, we all do well.

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Thanks

@melchoyce / melchoyce.design / mel.blog